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Students shout slogans against government during a protest against a new citizenship law in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2019. Hundreds of students marched Tuesday through the streets of New Delhi to Jantar Mantar, an area designated for protests near Parliament, against the new citizenship law, that allows Hindus, Christians and other religious minorities who are in India illegally to become citizens if they can show they were persecuted because of their religion in Muslim-majority Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan. It does not apply to Muslims. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Narendra Modi India citizenship law sparks protests

By Siddhant Mohan - Special to The Washington Times

Hindu refugees who migrated from Sindh province of Pakistan display their passports as they support the Citizenship Amendment Act in Ahmadabad, India, Monday, Dec. 23, 2019. India’s main opposition party staged a silent protest in the capital on Monday against the contentious new citizenship law, a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi defended the legislation and accused the opposition of pushing the country into a “fear psychosis.” (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

India’s ruling party loses key state election amid protests

By ASHOK SHARMA - Associated Press

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses a rally of his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party in New Delhi, India, Sunday, Dec. 22, 2019. Clashes continued Sunday between Indian police and protesters angered by a new citizenship law that excludes Muslims, as Modi used the rally to defend the legislation, accusing the opposition of pushing the country into a &quot;fear psychosis.&quot; (AP Photo)

India’s main opposition party stages protest against new law

By SHEIKH SAALIQ - Associated Press

Indian students of the Jamia Millia Islamia University and locals participate in a protest demonstration against a new citizenship law in New Delhi, India, Saturday, Dec. 21, 2019. Critics have slammed the law as a violation of India's secular constitution and have called it the latest effort by the Narendra Modi government to marginalize the country's 200 million Muslims. Modi has defended the law as a humanitarian gesture. Placard center reads &quot;Stop attacking universities.&quot; (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

India’s leader defends new law as protests against it go on

By EMILY SCHMALL - Associated Press

A Hindu pilgrim touches in obeisance an image of Hindu deities Rama, Sita and Lakshman in Ayodhya, India , Saturday, Nov. 9, 2019. India's security forces were on high alert ahead of the Supreme Court's verdict Saturday in a decades-old land title dispute between Muslims and Hindus over plans to build a Hindu temple on a site where Hindu hard-liners demolished a 16th century mosque in 1992, sparking deadly religious riots. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

Hindus rejoice, Muslims deplore India court ruling on temple

By SHEIKH SAALIQ - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 29, 1990, file photo, Indian security officer guards the Babri Mosque in Ayodhya, closing off the disputed site claimed by Muslims and Hindus. India’s top court is expected to pronounce its verdict on Saturday, Nov. 9, 2019, in the decades-old land title dispute between Muslims and Hindus over plans to build a Hindu temple on a site in northern India. In 1992, Hindu hard-liners demolished a 16th century mosque in Ayodhya, sparking deadly religious riots in which about 2,000 people, most of them Muslims, were killed across India. (AP Photo/Barbara Walton, File)

India’s court set to deliver verdict on temple dispute

Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 9, 2019, file photo, an Indian national flag, left, flies next to a Jammu and Kashmir state flag on the government secretariat building in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir. India on Thursday, Oct. 31, 2019 formally implemented legislation approved by its Parliament in early August that removes Indian-controlled Kashmir's semi-autonomous status and begins direct federal rule of the disputed area amid a harsh security lockdown and widespread public disenchantment. The most visible changes are the absence of Kashmir's own flag and constitution, which were eliminated as part of the region's new status. The Kashmiri flag, a symbol of its semi-autonomy, had always fluttered alongside India's national flag at the main government secretariat. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin, File)

No Kashmiri flag, constitution under Indian-imposed changes

By AIJAZ HUSSAIN and ASHOK SHARMA - Associated Press

Giant cutouts of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, right, and Maharashtra state Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis stand outside the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) office in Mumbai, India, Thursday, Oct. 24, 2019. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist party and its ruling alliance partners are leading in elections in two key Indian states where voters cast ballots on Oct. 21. Modi’s BJP and its ally Shiv Sena are leading in the western state of Maharashtra, home to India’s financial capital Mumbai. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Tough challenge for Modi’s party in 2 key state elections

By SHEIKH SAALIQ - Associated Press

Former Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar, left, with his wife Anjali and son Arjun pose for media after casting their votes in Mumbai, India, Monday, Oct. 21, 2019. Voting is underway in two Indian states of Maharashtra in the west and Haryana in the north where the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) headed by prime minister Narendra Modi is trying to win a second consecutive term. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

2 Indian states hold elections; Modi’s party expected to win

By SHEIKH SAALIQ - Associated Press

In this photo provided by Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi's twitter handle, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi takes morning walk at a beach in Mamallapuram, in southern India, Saturday, Oct. 12, 2019. India's foreign ministry said Chinese President Xi Jinping and Modi met in the seaside temple town of Mamallapuram over dinner for nearly two hours on Friday. The talks will continue Saturday. (Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi's twitter handle via AP Photo)

Indian Prime Minister Modi picks up trash from beach

Associated Press

In this handout photo provided by the Indian Prime Minister's Office, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi shake hands in Mamallapuram, India. Xi met with Modi at a time of tensions over Beijing's support for Pakistan in opposing India's downgrading of Kashmir's semi-autonomy and continuing restrictions on the disputed region. (Indian Prime Minister's Office via AP)

Modi tells Xi relations are stable, differences manageable

By RISHI LEKHI - Associated Press

Police personnel stand in the shade of banana trees at the entrance at the entrance to Mamallapuram, where Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping will hold their first meeting and dinner in southern India, Friday, Oct. 11, 2019. Xi is coming to India to meet with Modi on Friday, just weeks after Beijing supported India's rival Pakistan in raising the issue of New Delhi's recent actions in disputed Kashmir at the U.N. General Assembly meeting. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

China’s president in India for summit amid Kashmir tensions

By RISHI LEKHI - Associated Press

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Friday, Sept. 27, 2019, at the United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

Pakistan PM warns of ‘bloodbath’ in Kashmir; India PM silent

By FOSTER KLUG and JENNIFER PELTZ - Associated Press

President Donald Trump boards Air Force One for a trip to Houston to attend an event with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Sunday, Sept. 22, 2019, at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. The president then travels to Ohio before finally arriving in New York for the start of the United Nations General Assembly.( AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump visits 2 key states with leaders of India, Australia

By DEB RIECHMANN - Associated Press

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Trump shake hands after introductions during the "Howdy Modi" rally Sunday in Houston. (Associated Press)

Trump touts Indian PM Narendra Modi as he courts voters in Houston

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Oli, center right, leaves after virtually inaugurating the Nepal-India cross border petroleum pipeline through video conference in Kathmandu, Nepal, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2019. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Oli hit the switch simultaneously Tuesday from their offices in New Delhi and Kathmandu to open the 69-kilometer (43-mile) pipeline, which will bring gasoline, diesel fuel and kerosene across the border to Nepal. (AP Photo/Bikram Rai)

India, Nepal open cross border oil pipeline

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA - Associated Press

Indian paramilitary soldiers keep guard outside the main telephone exchange building in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Thursday, Sept. 5, 2019. The Indian government stripped the Indian-administered portion of Kashmir of its limited autonomy on Aug. 5. Authorities imposed a sweeping military curfew that's still in place, and cut off residents from all communication and the internet. Mobile phone services have yet to be restored. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)

Harsh Vardhan Shringla blasts Kashmir ‘disinformation’ from Pakistan

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Pakistani Ambassador Asad Majeed Khan lamented during a wide-ranging interview that millions of people inside Indian-controlled Jammu and Kashmir have been on lockdown without access to medicine or electricity.

Asad Majeed Khan calls on U.S. to pressure India on Kashmir curfew

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

In this photograph made available by the state-run WAM news agency, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, left, receives a medal during his induction to the Order of Zayed from Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, right, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Saturday, Aug. 24, 2019. Modi is on a trip to both the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, reinforcing ties between India and the Gulf Arab nations as he pursues stripping statehood from the disputed Muslim-majority region of Kashmir. (Hamad al-Kaabi - Ministry of Presidential Affairs/WAM via AP)

India’s Modi awarded UAE medal amid Kashmir crackdown

By JON GAMBRELL - Associated Press

FILE- In this Oct. 7, 2016 file photo, India's then Finance Minister Arun Jaitley speaks during a panel discussion at the World Bank/IMF Annual Meetings at IMF headquarters in Washington. Jaitley, India’s former finance minister and a key member of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s first term in office, has died in a New Delhi hospital. He was 66. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Former Indian Finance Minister Arun Jaitley dies at 66

By ASHOK SHARMA - Associated Press